We started out nice and dry the first part of the year and then we had the pandemic. Pretty much we had our whole crop in during April. For us…
We applied some manure and started some vertical tillage Thursday night. Friday I ran the chisel and have a few days of that to do. We are get…
We are getting manure hauled out of the barn. We got rained out Saturday. Washed up the combine, put on some fertilizer and had some vertical …
We are just about done picking corn. I’m out spreading fertilizer and we are getting soil samples done. We have some more tillage we have to d…
We’ve got about 500 acres left, so we are getting there — I’m thinking hopefully by Saturday. We’ll see if we can get there. I’m hauling off s…
The beans were down to 9 or 10% before rains Monday (Oct. 12) and they moved to 12%, so they got a little moisture. We got going Tuesday after…
We got two-tenths of rain, so we are luckier than some. I was running beans most of the week and have about two days left. We haven’t really t…
We’ve been steadily busy. We picked all our corn that was dry enough, but everything else is on the wet side. We did some beans for half a day…
We started picking corn Tuesday (Sept. 22) afternoon and got our machines calibrated. Wednesday we picked all day, finished a farm, Thursday w…
We are going to start corn Wednesday or Thursday (Sept. 23-24), just have a couple of things to do before that. We hand shelled the first fiel…
We had eight inches of rain since the last update. That’s enough for a while now. We have some beans turning about halfway or so. They are all…
We got a little shower, but it has been nice the last few days. We have some beans that are starting to turn finally. It’ll be a little while,…
(Monday) is nice so far. We’ve received about two-tenths inches of rain so far and hopefully we’ll get a little more. I haven’t seen any of ou…
It wasn’t an extremely busy week. We did some work on the combines to get those going. We are doing some mowing in ditches and waterways. Crop…
I was gone last week on vacation in northern Wisconsin and did some fishing. We got about 0.3 inches of rain which was welcomed. Driving throu…
We finished spraying beans on Wednesday (July 29). We aren’t dry yet, but if we don’t get rain here in another couple of weeks, we could start…
We sprayed corn here at the beginning of the week when it was cool out. We haven’t seen a whole lot, just a bit of gray leaf spot, but not muc…
Saturday morning we got a shot of rain. Corn is pretty much all tasseled, and the stuff that blew over is starting to come back up. It wasn’t …
Saturday afternoon we got about an inch of rain at home and then we had some fairly strong winds. You can kind of tell different hybrids are s…
We got some pretty good corn growing weather and it’s nice and hot. It sure looks like a couple of fields here and there where that leaf is st…
We did some more spraying June 25 since it finally dried out. We got rain again today and we probably have an easy day of it left to be done, …
Everything is really greening up more and more and the corn is stretching out. It’s looking really good. The rain was pretty scattered on Frid…
Last week we finished up sidedressing, then we got the nice tropical storm. We got about three inches at our place. We didn’t need quite that …
We finished post-spraying all the corn earlier last week and should finish sidedressing corn today (Monday). It rained on Thursday. We didn’t …
Started spraying again yesterday, since it finally got dry enough. We moved grain most of the week. Between Wednesday night and Thursday we ha…
It hasn’t really rained, but it’s misted a few times. The whole week was supposed to get warmer and sunnier and it’s been slowly getting there…
Oberbroeckling and his wife Kristen live in Garnavillo, Iowa. He manages the day-to-day operations for his family’s wean-to-finish hog operati…